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UWI Registrar Dr Donovan Stanberry
The University of the West Indies, Mona, has made an offer to assist the Jamaican students who fled Ukraine in the middle of their medical studies because of the Russian invasion.
Registrar at the UWI, Dr. Donovan Stanberry, confirmed on Tuesday that the university is exploring the possibility of academic placement at the level which the students were studying.
Dr. Stanberry, speaking on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines, explained however that each situation will have to be analysed, to ascertain whether the student has met "the matriculation hurdle" of the UWI.
He expressed confidence however that they would most likely meet the required standard for entry into the UWI's medical studies programme, noted that some of them had even been offered places at the university prior to their deision to pursue their studies in Uraine.
He explained though that the UWI is not in a position to grant lower tuition fees to the displaced students.
This, he said, was because of its own budgetary constraints and because it would present a "moral dilemma" to grant it to these students, despite the peculiar nature of their current situation, since the last intake of students were not granted the same benefit.
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